Posted January 7, 2008 - 20:52 by Paul Michael
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I like to keep up with all the latest news and info. I'm a big fan of Digg, BBC news, NPR, CNN, all the usual suspects. I thought I was fairly well-versed on the places to get my information and keep me "in the know." Then a friend of mine came over to visit from England, and he gave me a gift. It was a stick of deodorant that contained no harmful heavy metals. When I asked why, he said "what, don't you read News Target?"
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Posted November 28, 2007 - 19:38 by Will Chen
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The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter.
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Posted November 10, 2007 - 06:48 by Will Chen
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Norman Mailer: Democracy is a grace. Democracy is something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Democracy in fact on the concept, the notion that there are more people who re good than bad. And that's a very large notion.
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Posted November 5, 2007 - 01:20 by Will Chen
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"Waterboarding reached the U.S. via a circuitous route. The Spanish exported the practice to the Philippines, which they colonized for centuries. It was then adapted by U.S. forces there at the start of the 20th century and, eventually, adopted by some police forces in the U.S."
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Posted October 13, 2007 - 21:21 by Will Chen
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The top story on reddit right now is "VOTE UP if ouw ant GEORGE BUSH in Prison!!" It received 740 votes in 6 hours. There are several things wrong with this post:
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Posted October 8, 2007 - 10:21 by Philip Brewer
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A while back I wrote a piece on Opting out of the money economy, a topic I've long been interested in. Because of that long interest, the poem "Getting By" by Gary L. Lark caught my ear when it was on the most recent Writer's Almanac.
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Posted October 4, 2007 - 11:58 by Philip Brewer
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Bicycling for transportation is something that's important to me, so I was immediately attracted to the 2-mile challenge. Check out their site and see what's within 2 miles of your address.
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Posted September 21, 2007 - 14:21 by Paul Michael
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I'm not sure how many of you watch the news or read the news blogs on a daily basis. I know I can't, it's way too depressing to do every day. But when I saw that George W. Bush, our President, claimed he was fiscally responsible I almost snorted tea out of my nose and onto my monitor. Fiscally responsible? Seriously?
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Posted September 14, 2007 - 21:48 by Will Chen
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This awesome reddit thread has got to rank up there as one of the greatest moments in Geek History. Ascii art of our beloved Fry on a retro-styled Web 2.0 website is perfection. If anyone needs me, I'll be having a geekgasm.
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Posted August 19, 2007 - 10:26 by Philip Brewer
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A story in the New York Times says that exercise helps human brains build more neurons (a process called neurogenesis). It also reports on some mouse studies that show that exercise actually improves intellegence, at least in mice. Other things that induce neurogenesis: marijuana, alcohol (in moderation), sociability, and chocolate.
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